During your project's planning phase, you found that stakeholders insisted that their conflicting requirements be considered and consolidated. That made it hard to come up with a plan that satisfies all requirements. What is probably the most helpful step to ensure common understanding?

• Use your authorization and position as the project manager to choose which objectives to prioritize.
• Create a document explaining your point of view in detail and ask conflicting stakeholders to review it.
• Give each stakeholder the opportunity to write a statement of work, and then merge all documents to create the project scope statement.
• Build focus groups involving concerned stakeholders to discuss and resolve conflicting interests.